Links

The following resources and links deal with books and other products, services and websites that we think may be useful resources for people interested in health and losing weight.

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Further Reading

Health Food Companies

Vitamins and Supplements

Disease Associations

 fitness sites

Other Useful Websites

Further Reading

The following books are useful further reading to Healthy Intentions: make it a habit and provide additional information on a range of topics related to diet, fitness and the psychology of weight loss:

• Fat and Fibre Counter by Rosemary Stanton .
• Low GI Eating Made Easy: the easy way to eat well, look good and stay healthy by Prof Jennie Brand-Miller and Kaye Foster-Powell
• What to Eat: An Aisle-by-Aisle Guide to Savvy Food Choices by Marion Nestle
• CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet by Manny Noakes
• Psychology Today, Secrets of Successful Weight Loss by Diana Burrell

Gyms & Fitness

Fitness First offers fill gym and fitness programs and members receive an e-newsletter with information on services and events.

Fernwood Women’s Health Clubs is an Australian-owned chain of gyms for women with a magazine for members, which contains helpful information for people wanting to lose weight and/or get into shape.

Health Food Companies

Lowan Whole Foods is a supplier of a range of health foods, including many non-refined products (i.e. whole grained oats, stone ground wholemeal flour) suitable for anyone wanting to make their diet higher in fibre.

Vitamins and Supplements

Blackmores provides products, information, advice and knowledge on natural health, vitamins, minerals, herbs and supplements.

Government

HealthInsite is an Australian Government initiative, funded by the Department of Health and Ageing. It aims to improve the health of Australians by providing easy access to quality information about human health. It has good reference information as well as health articles on weight related issues.

This is a useful site for a wide variety of health related issues. The Better Health Channel (BHC) was established in May 1999 by the Victorian (Australia) Government. The information on the site aims to help improve the health and wellbeing of the Victorian community. The website provides online health and medical information.

National Health and Medical Research Council

Is the U.S. Food and drug administration website. It provides a wealth of information and advice on a rage of health related issues as well as very specific information on food and drugs.

Disease Associations

One of the leading causes of diabetes is obesity; this site provides a wide range of information on diabetes.

The Australasian Society for the Study of Obesity (ASSO) was established in 1991. It is a scientific organisation of medical practitioners, dietitians, scientists and other health care professionals interested in obesity research, treatment or public health initiatives directed at the prevention of obesity. It provides some useful information but for a lay person may be difficult to interpret.

Surgery

This is the web site of Obesity Surgery Society of Australia and New Zealand. It provides very useful information if you are contemplating and obesity surgery.
This website is to introduce you to surgery for severe obesity and the specialist society that has been formed to encourage research, education and communication into this surgical specialty. This is not about cosmetic surgery or liposuction but is about major surgery performed only when all other methods of weight loss have failed in those people whose health is threatened by their obesity.

Useful information on Lap band surgery, however it is produced by company manufacturing lap bands. You can also search for a obesity surgeon in your area in Australia from here.

Fitness information

Others

This is a very good reference source on the web. Wikipedia is a multilingual, web-based free content encyclopaedia project. Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers, allowing most of its articles to be edited by almost anyone with access to the website.